Ambassador Sam Brownback: "Don't Give Up"

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🗓️ 1 June 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Sam Brownback serves as the United States Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, leading the State Department’s efforts to promote religious freedom and the protection of religious minorities around the world.

Listen this week as he shares about how religious freedom serves as a foundation for many other freedoms, and which countries he sees moving the wrong direction on the issue. He’ll also share how his own faith motivates his work, and stories of both success and failure in his decades of work on behalf of persecuted religious minorities.

Finally, Ambassador Brownback shares how we can pray for him and other of our government officials working on behalf of persecuted Christians around the world, and reminds us that our prayers and our actions really do make a difference.

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0:00.0	When you hear about brothers or sisters imprisoned for their faith in a far-off country,
0:05.0	do you resign yourself and think, well, there's nothing I could do?
0:10.0	Ambassador Sam Brownback says your letters on behalf of prisoners are way more
0:16.8	powerful than you realize. I think people underestimate their ability to impact and don't just kind of throw it away
0:26.3	saying it's just useless because it's not what if she gets out or there be others that may have it better or not get arrested in the first
0:35.3	place because they saw how many people advocated for her.
0:39.5	It has an impact and don't give up. Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. In fact
0:48.2	he told his disciples that the world would hate them. He sent them out as sheep among wolves. Jesus's words came true in
0:55.8	the life of the Apostles and they're still coming true today in the lives of his
0:59.8	followers around the world. Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help right now on the Voice of the Martyrs radio network.
1:09.0	Welcome again to the Voice of the Martyrs radio. We have a very special guest this week. The U.S. Ambassador
1:15.1	at large for international religious freedom. Sam Brownback is with us. Ambassador Brownback
1:21.6	is formerly the governor of Kansas. He is also formerly a senator from the state of Kansas and he is a long time advocate for international religious freedom and for persecuted Christians
1:34.0	around the world. Ambassador Brownback, welcome to the Voice of the Martyrs
1:38.0	radio.
1:39.0	Pleasure to join you and it was a really enjoyed last year when I stopped by your headquarters in Oklahoma.
1:44.7	I was going down to a conference and I saw that you were close by and it came in.
1:48.8	Really impressed with the facility and the heart of the people working on this topic. I've taken your publication over the years and seen it and you really have been ahead of your time.
1:58.0	There's a lot of people interested in religious freedom now, but you guys were there and have been there for a long time and do a
2:03.9	fabulous job. Well thank you very much it's it's our honor to serve
2:08.4	persecuted Christians around the world. How did religious freedom become such an important personal issue for you?
2:15.8	Something that you were really passionate about. Yeah I started hearing about cases.
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